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Exercise 1.4 (Basic properties of the simple integral)

Let f,g : Ω [0,] be simple unsigned functions.

1.
(Linearity) we have Simp df + g = Simpdf + Simpdg
2.
(Equivalence) if almost everywhere f = g, then Simp df = Simpdg.
3.
(Finiteness) we have Simp df < if and only if (1) f is finite almost everywhere and (2) its support has finite measure.
4.
(Monotonicity) if almost everywhere f g then Simp df Simpdg.
5.
(Markov inequality) Show that for any 0 < t < we have μ ( {ω Ω : f(ω) t}) 1 tSimpΩfdμ

Answers

We refer to the equivalent exercises from Terence Tao’s An Introduction to Measure Theory:

1.
See Exercise 1.4.33 (iii,iv).
2.
See Exercise 1.4.33 (vi).
3.
See Exercise 1.4.33 (vii).
4.
See Exercise 1.4.33 (i).
5.
Let f = c11E1 + + cn1En be a simple representation of f and assume that c1 cn. Let 1 k n be such that c1,,ck < t and ck+1,,cn t. We then equivalently need to prove that i=k+1nμ(E i) 1 t i=1nc iμ(Ei)

or, in other words,

i=1nc iμ(Ei) i=k+1n(E i) i=k+1n(c i ti) μ(Ei) 0.

But this follows by the definition of k.

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